1 "Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters!

Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat!

Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread,

and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy?

Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good,

and let your soul delight itself in richness.

3 Turn your ear, and come to me.

Hear, and your soul will live.

I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples,

a leader and commander to the peoples.

5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know;

and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you,

because of Yahweh your God,

and for the Holy One of Israel;

for he has glorified you."

6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found.

Call on him while he is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way,

and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him,

to our God, for he will freely pardon.

8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

and your ways are not my ways," says Yahweh.

9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways,

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky,

and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth,

and makes it grow and bud,

and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

11 so is my word that goes out of my mouth:

it will not return to me void,

but it will accomplish that which I please,

and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

12 For you shall go out with joy,

and be led out with peace.

The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing;

and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

13 Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up;

and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up.

It will make a name for Yahweh,

for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off."

1 唉！ 口渴的人哪！ 你们都就近水来吧。没有银钱的， 你们也要来， 买了就吃。你们要来， 买酒和奶， 不用银子， 也不用付代价。

2 你们为什么用银子去买那不是食物的呢？为什么用你们劳碌得来的去买那不能使人饱足的呢？你们要留心听我的话， 就可以吃美物， 使你们的心灵享受肥甘。

3 你们要侧耳而听， 要到我这里来； 你们要听， 就可以存活； 我必与你们立永远的约， 就是应许赐给大卫的那确实的慈爱。

4 看哪！ 我已经立了他作万族的见证人， 为万族的首领和司令。

5 看哪！ 你要召聚你不认识的国； 那些素来不认识你的国也必奔向你， 都因耶和华你的 神、以色列的圣者的缘故， 因为他已经荣耀了你。

6 你们要趁着耶和华可以寻找的时候， 寻找他， 趁着他靠近的时候， 呼求他。

7 恶人要离弃自己的道路， 不义的人当除去自己的意念， 回转过来归向耶和华， 耶和华就必怜悯他。你们当回转过来归向我们的 神， 因为他大大赦免人的罪。

8 耶和华说： "我的意念不是你们的意念， 你们的道路也不是我的道路。

9 天怎样高过地， 我的道路也怎样高过你们的道路， 我的意念也怎样高过你们的意念。

10 雨雪怎样从天上降下来， 不再返回天上， 却灌溉大地， 使地上的植物发芽结实， 使撒种的有种子， 吃的人有粮食；

11 从我的口所出的话也必这样， 必不徒然返回我这里， 却要作成我所喜悦的， 使它在我差遣它去作的事上必然亨通。

12 你们必欢欢喜喜出来， 平平安安蒙引导； 大山小山都必在你们面前发声欢呼， 田野所有的树木也都拍掌。

13 松树要长起来代替荆棘， 番石榴要长起来代替蒺藜。这要为耶和华留名， 作永远不能废掉的记号。"